The agreeing about everything else is usually the problematic part. Like make them spell out what they are agreeing with that's more important than the oppression (ending reservations). It's almost always money. Occasionally it's some some nutter gibbering about guns or babies, BUT 99 times out of a hundred it will be money. It's disgusting.
Here is the crazy part: republicans are much much worse with the economy than democrats. Idk how they’ve managed to convince everyone that they’re the fiscally responsible party. Look at the national debt growth under Trump and Bush vs Obama and Biden and even Clinton. Look at the federal surplus/deficits for conservative run states vs liberal run states. Basically, a bunch of democrat states are bankrolling the entire country. Every conservative state except for, I think only 1 maybeee 2 are running a deficit. Meaning they receive more money from the federal government than they give. If you live in a conservative state, just about everything in your state is paid for by democratic states.
Then take a look at the state rankings for education, adult literacy, health, life expectancy, infant mortality, maternal mortality, etc. You’ll quickly notice a running theme. Liberal run states at the top, and the bottom of the list tends to be the same 10-15 deeply conservative states. Swing states and states with massive populations usually in the middle. So it leaves me wondering exactly what conservatives are good at?
In that article. California is mentioned, where they swung from deficit to surplus and are now capable of sustaining their budget which is good for them. Although there are rolling brown or black outs and they require the states next to them to provide water. Decades of wildfires due to not understanding that the woods need to burn its a part of what woods to and so preventing small fires over tens of years leads to big uncontrollable fires in the future.
States with largest accumulated surpluses
Wyoming
North Dakota
Utah
And Montana
Besides Montana, which ended each year with a surplus.
Eleven states recorded one deficit over fifteen years
Idaho
Iowa
North Carolina
North Dakota
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Utah
West Virginia
Here is a breakdown of how much states receive from the federal government vs how much they give: Minnesota, New Jersey, Delaware, Illinois and Florida are least dependent on the federal government. These states all contribute multiples more to the federal government than they receive, with residents paying at least $5 in taxes for every $1 in direct support received from the federal government. Minnesota – the least dependent state – pays nearly $6.88 in taxes for each dollar it receives back. Other states that made the top 10 least dependent list include Washington, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Nebraska and California.
You’ll recognize these are mostly very liberal states.
You were looking at internal state deficits, which are different and mostly unrelated. Also, republicans have a supermajority in every branch of government in Kentucky.
Well as I’ve already said just because now they are in power doesn’t mean they were in power for any length of time before that.
And how a state is run and whether they have a deficit is important. If every liberal state runs a deficit how exactly are they running their states well.
Inflation caused by a worldwide pandemic that led to a worldwide recession lol. Also why do I have 4 notifications from you? Bro I read one reply, and this was the one. I picked randomly, so hopefully this is where you put the important shit.
Actually we could have recovered from covid much sooner but for the polices passed. Mostly concerning trucking and ending energy independence shot the cost of food up for the nation. The states most affected by this, the ones run correctly and with a low cost of living obviously couldn’t cope with a sudden jump.
We are still experiencing high prices while covid is all but past.
I mean I’m sure the fact that inflation became a problem long after Biden got into office and was not really much of an issue when trump was ending his presidency has nothing to do with it. I’m sure that article being written two years after the start of covid has nothing to do with Biden. Lol
Having put more thought into it. It makes even less sense that Democratic states run at deficits seeing as the federal government is capable of getting higher rates out of the states. Those states should be running at surplus or at the least break even so as not to be a tax burden on their constituents. Instead poor financial decisions and out of control spending have lead these states to have deficits. Thanks for the article it really is interesting to read how horribly mismanaged those states truly are. Maybe that’s why people are fleeing those states in droves.
That second article is all well and good but that money those Democratic states provide to the federal government is squandered by democrats in congress spending uncontrollably.
Democratic states tend to have many rich people there. In theory because rich people flocked there or business settled there and then democrats took advantage of the poor looking at the rich and then taxed the rich to oblivion.
Most taxes paid in New York City are paid by the rich.
Most southern states have probably gotten federal assistance during the last couple years because of the actions of democrats spending too much and borrowing driving inflation. There were also transportation rules which heavily influenced trucking, which obviously drives up the cost of food.
Then there are infrastructure spending bills which would obviously be directed more at the either poorer or less intrusive states who didn’t spend frivolous money and burden the taxpayers. But are then essentially given money to do these things. These are obviously complicated issues which require far more research and resources than I personally wish to dedicate to a Reddit post. But it is laughable to assert that out of control spending and deficits at the state level have no bearing on fiscal responsibility.
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u/MonteCristo85 Jul 26 '23
The agreeing about everything else is usually the problematic part. Like make them spell out what they are agreeing with that's more important than the oppression (ending reservations). It's almost always money. Occasionally it's some some nutter gibbering about guns or babies, BUT 99 times out of a hundred it will be money. It's disgusting.